2 HIGH-SPEED NETWORK ROLLOUT CHALLENGES Maintaining Multiservice SLAs Managing CAPEX Minimizing OPEX Agile and intelligent optical transport networks have made it possible to manage dynamic services, from anywhere and at any time. In this new model, service providers and network operators can support both legacy and next-generation services to increase their revenues. However, the challenge is to turn up such services and maintain them according to service-level agreements (SLAs). Although data traffic is skyrocketing, related revenues are only growing at a fraction of this rate, while costs are growing faster. As a result, service providers are intensifying their return-on-investment (ROI) requirements on newly qualified transmission and test equipment to lower their capital expenses (CAPEX) and achieve greater savings throughout the equipment s life span. In addition to addressing bandwidth demand, service providers 40G/100G strategies must also target dramatic reductions in operational expenses (OPEX), including truck rolls and technician field dispatch. Therefore, it is becoming more crucial to select the proper multiservice testing solution for rapidly scaling the networks, reducing time-to-service and ensuring turn-up efficiency. Steel-Toed and Field-Ready Rising to the multiservice field-testing challenges of today and offering the scalability to cover the unforeseeable future, the supports all possible rates up to 100G, as well as a wide range of technologies, including legacy TDM and new packet-based services. This EXFO innovation sets a new benchmark: 10M-to-100G Ethernet, OTU1 to OTU4 (including standard and overclocked rates), OC-3/STM-1 to OC-768/STM-256 all in one small, powerful module. Housed in EXFO s FTB-500 platform, which offers integrated optical testing tools, the FTB-88100NGE eliminates the need for multiple test boxes, delivering multiservice testing up to 100G in a single, rugged solution built and ready for the field.

3 A GAME CHANGER FOR HIGH-SPEED-SERVICE DEPLOYMENT The introduces a new OPEX and CAPEX saving factor, as its FLEX configuration capitalizes on EXFO s flexible platform architecture to enable any testing capability from 10M to 100G, anywhere, anytime, with simple pointand-click to enable software options. This flexibility guarantees a cost-effective, future-proof offering and ensures immediate access to testing capabilities and faster service provisioning, while avoiding unnecessary costs for shipping back the test equipment. In addition, since the FTB-88100NGE is housed in the FTB-500 platform, it provides you with the added benefits of EXFO s FTB Ecosystem including automated, cloud-based asset and test data management, as well as EXFO s software Update Manager allowing you to streamline test operations, from build-out to maintenance. POWERFUL, YET SIMPLE Regardless of the fact that high-speed technologies and next-generation networks are becoming more and more complex, the addresses all field testing needs up to 100 Gbit/s without sacrificing simplicity. Thanks to EXFO s highly intuitive graphical user interface (GUI), streamlined procedures and predefined configurations, it requires minimal to no training for new users. Furthermore, with unmatched connectivity via Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Gigabit Ethernet or USB ports, the FTB-500 Windows-based platform is accessible in any environment and at any time, reducing unnecessary tier-2 technician dispatching and truck rolls to remote sites. In addition, the FTB-500 platform allows you to customize your testing solution. Combine the module with any EXFO optical module for fiber characterization and OSNR qualification, and run them simultaneously to speed up testing and accelerate time to service.

4 SIMPLIFIED BER TESTING With the, you can preconfigure OTN (from OTU1 to OTU4, including standard and overclocked rates), Ethernet (from 10M to 100G) and SONET/SDH (from OC-3/STM-1 to OC-768/STM-256) bit-error-rate (BER) test parameters prior to going to the test site, and then load them from the Favorites menu with one click. This allows for simple BER testing even at 40G/100G, with no room for misconfigurations between two remote sites. Furthermore, the preconfigured Favorites can be copied from one platform to another or even sent to technicians out in the field via , where they can load them using the USB port on their platform. Once the BER test has started, the FTB-88100NGE provides clear results, assorted notifications and real-time pass/fail status via text or icons. Clicking on the pass/fail indicator maximizes this important status to full screen, providing instant, easily understood notification, whether the unit is in your hand or across the room. Tx Rx ETHERNET PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT The FTB-88100NGE offers an automated RFC 2544 test suite for 10/100/1000M, GigE, 10 GigE LAN/WAN, 40G and 100G Ethernet interfaces at all frame sizes and at full line rate, delivering repeatable test results and error-free circuit certification at 100% utilization. RFC 2544 is complemented with five Smart Loopback modes. So, whether you are looking to pinpoint loopback traffic from a UDP or TCP layer, or all the way down to a completely promiscuous mode (Transparent Loopback), the FTB-88100NGE can adjust to all loopback situations where the remote unit will return traffic to the local unit by swapping packet overhead up to layer 4 of the OSI stack. The FTB-88100NGE s Ethernet performance assessment capabilities also include test reports with detailed throughput, frame loss, back-to-back and latency measurements as well as clear histograms, for future reference as to specific SLAs. ro et M et N k or w

5 ETHERSAM: ITU-T Y.1564 ETHERNET SERVICE ACTIVATION As 10G and lower-rate Ethernet are the services most activated today, the new ITU-T Y.1564 standard addresses the growing demand for turning up and troubleshooting Carrier Ethernet services. Supported on the module for 10M-to-10G Ethernet client services, this new methodology brings numerous advantages, including validation of critical SLA criteria such as packet jitter and QoS measurements, as well as faster time to service. EXFO s EtherSAM test suite based on the ITU-T Y.1564 Ethernet service activation methodology provides comprehensive field testing for mobile backhaul and commercial services. It can simulate all types of services that will run on the network and simultaneously qualify all key SLA parameters for each of these services. Moreover, it validates the QoS mechanisms provisioned in the network to prioritize the different service types, resulting in better troubleshooting, more accurate validation and much faster deployment. EtherSAM is comprised of two phases: the service configuration test and the service performance test. Service Configuration Test The service configuration test consists of sequentially testing each service. It validates that the service is properly provisioned and that all specific KPIs or SLA parameters are met. Service Performance Test Once the configuration of each individual service is validated, the service performance test simultaneously validates the quality of all the services over time. In addition, EXFO s EtherSAM approach proves even more powerful as it executes the complete ITU-T Y.1564 test bidirectionally. Key SLA parameters are measured independently in each test direction, thus providing 100% first-time-right service activation the highest level of confidence in service testing. ETHERNET TRAFFIC GENERATION AND MONITORING Data services are making a significant shift toward supporting a variety of applications on the same network. Multiservice offerings such as triple-play services have fuelled the need for QoS testing to ensure the condition and reliability of each service and fully qualify SLA parameters. The allows service providers to simultaneously simulate and qualify different applications through its Traffic Generation application. Configure up to 16 streams with different Ethernet and IP QoS parameters such as VLAN ID (802.1Q), VLAN priority (802.1p), VLAN stacking (802.1ad Q-in-Q), ToS and DSCP. The FTB-88100NGE also offers the flexibility to define one configuration profile and apply it to as many streams as required; from there, it is just a matter of making slight tweaks as needed, rather than complete configuration profiles per stream. Furthermore, the FTB-88100NGE simultaneously measures throughput, latency, frame loss, packet jitter (RFC 3393) and out-of-sequence of all streams, for fast and in-depth qualification of all SLA criteria. Results can be displayed in tabular format as well as in analog visual gauges to ensure that you can quickly and easily interpret the outcome of the test.

6 SIMPLIFIED ERROR INJECTION The enables error and alarm injection with a single click, from any screen, allowing you to ensure circuit continuity prior to starting a test. This capability applies to single optical channels when addressing 10M-to-100G testing interfaces and extends to four or ten optical channels for 40G and 100G when using parallel CFPs. Furthermore, this functionality can be preprogrammed for any given type of error and not just for bit errors; alarm injection can be selected per lane and not necessarily on all lanes simultaneously. COMPLETE OVERHEAD MANIPULATION AND MONITORING EXFO s FTB-88100NGE allows complete OTN and SONET/SDH overhead manipulation and monitoring for advanced testing and troubleshooting. Furthermore and consistent with this module s simplified testing approach, the overhead manipulation and monitoring capability is categorized under Functions in the GUI and apart from the default setup and results pages. The Functions category offers various 40G/100G testing capabilities required by tier-2 engineers for advanced field troubleshooting, eliminating the need for a second test instrument for those rare situations.

7 DELAY MEASUREMENT Today, carriers have an opportunity to turn optical networks into a competitive advantage by guaranteeing low-latency traffic transmission for delay-sensitive applications including video, cloud computing and financial trading applications. With this in mind, the enables OTN, SONET/SDH and Ethernet delay measurements across all supported testing interfaces, from 10M to 100G, enabling carriers to solidify their competitive advantage when building low-latency optical transport networks and guarantee the speed of service to their end customers. This functionality measures the time required for a bit to travel from the FTB-88100NGE s transmitter back to its receiver after crossing a far-end loopback, providing complete delay results including delay measurement and min./max./average delay statistics. Tx Rx RAPID DIAGNOSTIC TEST TOOLS Per-Wavelength Laser Control and Power Measurements Verifying the power level may seem obvious, but it is a vital step often omitted due to lack of convenience or test equipment. With the FTB-88100NGE s built-in power measurement capability, you can accurately test per-channel ingress and egress levels without risking damage to expensive 40G/100G circuit packs. Per-Lane Frequency and Offset Measurements Along with optical power measurements, frequency accuracy verification is a good sanity check to determine network health prior to BER testing during 40G/100G network commissioning. The offers per-lane frequency and frequency offset testing capabilities to verify that the NE s clock recovery circuitry is operating accurately.

8 IP Connectivity Tools As part of the IP connectivity tools, the ping tool is used to verify that the user can reach a specific address within or outside of a subnetwork. The traceroute tool is a modified version of the ping tool and is used to determine the route or the number of hops that are required to reach a destination host. These basic tools supported on the are essential when testing through 40G/100G routed networks. The results of these tests can pinpoint critical configuration issues within the network. ADVANCED TROUBLESHOOTING TOOLS Capturing EXFO s FTB-88100NGE s capturing power goes far beyond basic capabilities. The module adds extra features and functionalities to boost test cycle efficiency and provide more value. Its packet and overhead capture tools offer comprehensive filtering, triggering and truncation methods to target specific traffic and quickly pinpoint issues in the lab and in the field. Advanced Traffic Filtering In some cases, troubleshooting only concerns a particular traffic flow. The FTB-88100NGE s advanced traffic-filtering capability allows you to restrict traffic by using up to four trigger fields and operands (and, or, not). A complete set of triggers is available, such as MAC, IP and TCP/UDP fields, as well as VLAN, MPLS and PBB-TE fields. CFP Health Check The FTB-88100NGE s CFP health check testing capabilities address service providers CFP-related challenges, including CFP tracking information to eliminate customers concerns with CFP insertion and extraction, per-lane measurements and bit-error-rate (BER) testing, signal conditioning, skew measurements and full management data input/output (MDIO) read/write access. CFP Health Check

9 10M TO 100G KEY FEATURES SONET/SDH Rates High-order mappings Low-order mappings Power measurement Frequency measurement Frequency offset OC3/STM-1, OC-12/STM-4, OC-48/STM-16, OC-192/STM-64, OC-768/STM-256 STS-1/3c/12c/48c/192c/768c and AU-3/AU-4/AU-4-4c/16c/64c/256c VT1.5, TU-11/12/2/3 Optical channel power measurement with color indicators Clock frequency measurements displayed in ppm and bit/s Offsetting of the transmitted signal s clock on a selected interface, and monitoring to exercise clock recovery circuitry on network elements Performance monitoring G.821, G.826,G.828, G.829, M.2100, M.2101 Pointers Generation and analysis of HO/AU and LO/TU pointer adjustments as per GR-253, and ITU-T G.707 Service disruption time (SDT) Round-trip delay (RTD) Automatic protection swithcing (APS) Programmable errors/alarms Through mode Payload block and replace Measures the time during which there is a disruption of service due to the network switching from the active channels to the backup channels Measures the time required for a bit to travel from the FTB-88100NGE transmitter back to its receiver after crossing a far-end loopback Ability to monitor and set up automatic protection switching messages (K1/K2 byte of SONET/SDH overhead) Ability to inject errors/alarms in the following modes: Manual, Constant Rate, Burst, Periodic Burst and Continuous Ability to perform intrusive and transparent Through mode analysis of any SONET/SDH signal Ability to terminate and analyze a specific high-order path element and replace it with a PRBS pattern on the Tx side Optical Transport Network (OTN) Rates Power measurement Frequency measurement Frequency offset Alarms and errors Forward error correction (FEC) Service disruption time (SDT) Round-trip delay (RTD) ODU0 ODUflex ODU multiplexing Client mappings Through mode OTU1 (2.7 Gbit/s), OTU2 (10.7 Gbit/s), OTU1e ( Gbit/s), OTU2e ( Gbit/s), OTU1f ( Gbit/s), OTU2f ( Gbit/s), OTU3 (43 Gbit/s), OTU3e1 (44.57 Gbit/s), OTU3e2 (44.58 Gbit/s) and OTU4 ( Gbit/s) Optical channel power measurement with color indicators Clock frequency measurements displayed in ppm and bit/s Offsetting of the transmitted signal s clock on a selected interface, and monitoring to exercise clock recovery circuitry on network elements Generation and analysis of OTL, OTU, ODU and OPU alarms and errors Generation and analysis of FEC correctable and uncorrectable errors Measures the time during which there is a disruption of service due to the network switching from the active channels to the backup channels Measures the time required for a bit to travel from the FTB-88100NGE transmitter back to its receiver after crossing a far-end loopback ODU0 (1.25 Gbit/s) container with Gigabit Ethernet, SONET/SDH client signal mapping and PRBS pattern ODUflex with Ethernet client signal mapping and PRBS pattern ODU1, ODU2 and ODU3 single and multistage multiplexing down to ODU0 SONET/SDH and Ethernet client mappings into OPU payloads Ability to perform intrusive and transparent Through mode analysis of any OTN signal

10 10M TO 100G KEY FEATURES (CONT D) Ethernet Rates Power measurement Frequency measurement EtherSAM (Y.1564) RFC 2544 Smart Loopback BERT Service disruption time (SDT) VLAN stacking Flow control statistics Advanced auto-negotiation Traffic generation Traffic filtering Ethernet statistics 10/100/1000M Base-T, 100M (optical) GigE, 10 GigE LAN/WAN, 40 GigE and 100 GigE Optical channel power measurement with color indicators Clock frequency measurements displayed in ppm and Hz Service configuration tests, including the ramp and burst tests, as well as the service performance test as per ITU-T Y.1564 up to 10G; tests can be performed in Loopback or Dual Test Set mode for bidirectional results Throughput, back-to-back, frame loss and latency measurements according to RFC 2544; frame size: RFC-defined or user-configurable Traffic return to the local unit by swapping packet overhead up to layer 4 of the OSI stack Unframed, framed layer 1 and framed layer 2, with or without VLAN Q-in-Q Defect or No Traffic mode up to 10G; disruption time statistics include shortest, longest, last, average, total and count Capability to generate one stream with up to three layers of VLAN (including IEEE 802.1ad Q-in-Q tagged VLAN) Pause time, last pause time, max. pause time, min. pause time, paused frames, abort frames, frames Tx, frames Rx Capability to auto-negotiate the rate, duplex and flow control capabilities with another Ethernet port, configurable auto-negociation parameters, display of link partner capabilities and fault injection: offline, link failure, auto-negotiation error Transmission and analysis of up to 16 streams up to 100G; configuration parameters: packet size, transmission mode, MAC source/destination address, VLAN ID, VLAN priority, IP source/destination address, ToS field, DSCP field, TTL, UDP source/destination port and payload Incoming traffic analysis and statistics according to a set of up to 10 configurable filters; filters can be configured for MAC source/destination address, VLAN ID, VLAN priority, IP source/destination address, ToS field, DSCP field, TCP source/destination port and UDP source/destination port; VLAN filtering can be applied to any of the stacked VLAN layers Multicast, broadcast, unicast, N-unicast, pause frame, frame size distribution, bandwidth, utilization, frame rate, frame loss, out-of-sequence frames and in-sequence frames Packet jitter statistics Delay variation statistics (ms): min., max., last, average and jitter measurement estimate (RFC 3393) PBB-TE MPLS IPv6 Advanced filtering Data capture Traffic scan Dual Test Set mode IP tools Stream generation and analysis with PBB-TE data traffic at up to 10G, including configuration of B-MAC (source and destination), B-VLAN and I-tag (as per 802.1ah), and filtering of received traffic by any of these fields Stream generation and analysis at up to 10G with up to two layers of MPLS labels, and filtering of received traffic by MPLS label or CoS Capability to perform BERT, RFC 2544, traffic generation and analysis, as well as Smart Loopback tests at up to 10G over IPv6; ping, traceroute, neighbor discovery and stateless auto-configuration Capability to enhance the filters with up to four fields each, which can be combined with AND/OR/NOT operations; a mask is also provided for each field value to allow for wildcards; complete statistics are gathered for each defined filter Full-line-rate data capture and decoding at up to 100G; configuration of detailed capture filters and triggers, as well as capture slicing parameters Scanning of incoming live traffic and auto-discovery of all VLAN/VLAN priority and MPLS ID/CoS flows; statistics for each flow, including frame count and bandwidth End-to-end, bidirectional performance testing as required by leading standards bodies; remote FTB-88100NGE controlled via the LAN connection under test Ping and traceroute functions One-way delay Measurement of one-way frame delay at up to 10G as part of EtherSAM (Y.1564) and RFC 2544 Signal label control and monitoring DHCP client Configuration and monitoring of J0 trace, J1 trace and payload signal label C2 (WAN) for 10G Ethernet Connection to a DHCP server to obtain its IP address and subnet mask to connect to the network

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